Okay, Android is not a programming language, but you also didn't limit yourself to programming languages as such - Rails is just, to quote your words, "the fram

Okay, Android is not a programming language, but you also didn't limit yourself to programming languages as such - Rails is just, to quote your words, "the framework that made Ruby popular" (whereas Ruby itself is nearly 20 years old). Indeed, there is no reason to assume that RoR developers who have been in the business for >=9 years were Ruby devs since the day Rails was released, but I can't see how it is any different in case of Perl. I just accepted your logic (which I believe to be flawed) for the sake of argument. Don't get me wrong, I found your article interesting and I like when people go against the tide of hype, speaking for (currently) underappreciated technologies. I just think you used some exaggerated rhetorics.